Dear Friend,
Capacity building is often undertaken as an activity. At CSE, we see our capacity-building work in water and sanitation as critical to developing a conceptual understanding of emerging issues and challenges, building on what is happening on the ground. Not merely on normative, technical applications.
Best capacity building is done on the job, not through trainings. We cannot influence the work culture of other organisations and the government. What we do at CSE is to raise critical issues in our training programs that invite trainees to develop skill sets to apply their learning to different contexts and to ever-changing technology solutions. To be able to identify the best solutions in their context. We use interactive webinars and online sessions during our trainings, to foster this larger understanding.
During the last three months, CSE undertook 11 capacity-building trainings in urban and rural water and wastewater management. These trainings were conducted under our JJM and NMCG partnerships. Our trainings are open to all.
In collaboration with the Department of Urban Development (DoUD) Uttar Pradesh, CSE organised a national workshop in Lucknow on FSSM enabling Bye-Laws for Desludging and the Economics of Desludging. As knowledge and learning and sharing event.
CSE participated in the IWA 2022 International meet in Copenhagen where we presented the work done by CSE in UP. We celebrated the November 19 World Toilet Day through a webinar conversation with Jack Sim of the World Toilet Organisation.
We are now working on a Water Sensitive Framework for Global South Cities. By contextualising the normative discourse emerging from the Planned and Infrastructure developed cities context of Australia and Europe to the Indian and global south context. Balancing the need for both grey and green infrastructure requirement with a justice and equity perspective that is missing in the discourse of the global north.
We look forward to strengthening our Urban Water capacity development work and learning content, with a reach out to ground-level experiences and research in the coming year.
Your suggestions and feedback are welcome at: sww-aaeti@cseindia.org
Best regards,
Depinder Singh Kapur
Director - Water Programme |
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| School of Water & Waste Activities, Initiatives and Resources |
| Please find below our events, news updates, tools and opportunities for you to learn more and collaborate with us in our ongoing and upcoming endeavours. |
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CSE at International Water Association (IWA) Congress, Copenhagen
September 11 - 15, 2022
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) - School of Water and Waste (SWW) unit organized and participated in a series of events at the International Water Association (IWA) World Water Congress & Exhibition held in Copenhagen this year. The event provided an opportunity to deliberate on emerging priorities, and network with partners engaged in urban sanitation work to identify research, policy and capacity development agendas for collaborative engagement.
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Twitter Spaces Talk Show: Sanitation’s Role in Strengthening Sustainable Development
September 28, 2022
Mr Jyoti Parsad – CSE was invited as a speaker in a live talk show on twitter spaces organized by NFSSM Alliance on the occasion of the 7th Anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The conversations involved setting narratives around the interlinkages between Sanitation and other key SDGs and the need to adopt an inter-sectoral approach.
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CSE – Rural Water Management (RWM) Unit's first alumni meeting
September 28, 2022
CSE – Rural water and waste (RWM) unit conducted its first alumni meeting online to understand the impact of capacity building on Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) in rural areas and how CSE’s training has helped them in the successful implementation of projects and the policy framework of the state. A total of 40 participants attended the meeting representing states; Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Meghalaya, Karnataka, and Rajasthan.
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National Consultation and Inauguration of ‘Super 59 (Part I), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (UP)
September 29, 2022
CSE – Programme Support Unit (PSU) in collaboration with the Department of Urban Development (DoUD) and AMRUT, Uttar Pradesh, successfully organized the 'National Consultation on FSSM bye-laws & Economics of desludging And Inauguration of ‘Super 59 (Part I)'. The event included Executive officers and other representatives of 25 ULBs from UP and also participation from CEPT University, Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) Athena Infonomics CDD Society and others.
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FSSM Tracking and Monitoring for operational FSSM projects in Uttar Pradesh (UP)
September, 2022
CSE in partnership with the Department of Urban Development (DoUD, Uttar Pradesh) keeps track of the progress of the state with the objective of bringing reforms and implementing interventions to help in achieving effective Faecal Sludge and Septage Management. As per the latest data, a total of 160.2 million litres of safely treated faecal sludge has been recorded from 34000+ no. of tanker trips in 8 cities of UP, i.e., Lucknow, Jhansi, Unnao, Chunar, Loni, Modinagar, Aligarh and Bijnor.
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Webinar series on ‘Technique for water recycling and rain water harvesting and sewage water treatment’
October 6-7, 2022
Mr Jyoti Parsad Dadhich and Mr Dhruv Pasricha - CSE were invited as key speakers for a 2-day webinar series organized by Central Public Works Department (CPWD) Academy, Ghaziabad, Government of India. The webinar intended to capacitate and build the knowledge of CPWD officials about the concepts and technological options for wastewater treatment and rainwater harvesting and was attended by 100+ government officials daily.
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Webinar on ‘Urban Planning for the Aggravating urban risks’
October 17, 2022
Ms Shivani – CSE was invited as a speaker in a webinar organized by the National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India. She presented the scope of Water and Sanitation Sensitive Urban Design and Planning in the Indian context as a new approach and process of resilience building in urban areas.
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Inauguration of Schedule Desludging in Chunar
October 19, 2022
CSE – Technical Support Unit (TSU) in collaboration with Nagar Palika Parishad, Chunar, successfully organized and inaugurated Scheduled desludging in the city. The event emphasizing the importance of Scheduled desludging, was aimed as a catalyst for the initiation of Scheduled Desludging in a ward on a pilot basis and then throughout the city of Chunar.
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Webinar on Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems
October 20, 2022
Mr Jyoti Parsad – CSE was invited as a speaker for a webinar organized by the Institute of Public Health Engineers (IPHE), India - Delhi NCR Regional Centre. He deliberated on the importance and need for decentralised wastewater treatment and local reuse promoting the circular economy concept.
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District Level Planning for Faecal Sludge Management in Rural Areas
September 20 – 24, 2022
CSE – Rural Water and Waste programme rolled out its 5-day residential training programme tailor-made for the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen officials to advocate the importance of decentralized treatment of faecal sludge in rural scenarios. A total of 21 government officials from the state of Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and West Bengal attended the training.
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Operation and Maintenance of Faecal Sludge and Cotreatment plants
September 20 – 23, 2022
CSE – Urban Water and Waste programme successfully conducted a 3-day residential training programme specifically designed for the technical officials from Uttar Pradesh state for the smooth Operation and Maintenance of Faecal Sludge and Co-Treatment Plants (under construction or commissioned) under AMRUT funding. A total of 31 participants from different zones of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam, and frontrunner ULBs attended the training programme.
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Greywater Management in Rural Areas under Jal Jeevan Mission
October 19 – 20, 2022
CSE – Rural Water and Waste unit and the Environment Monitoring laboratory unit conducted a 2-day laboratory training on “Smart and affordable technologies to monitor the drinking water quality, accompanied by field exposure visit” under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). The training targeted level 2 officials working in PHED (Public Health Engineering Department) district laboratory chemists in different states.
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Greywater Management in Rural Areas under JalJeevan Mission
November 02 – 04, 2022
CSE – Rural Water and Waste unit under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) organised a tailor-made training programme for level 2 officials working in Rural Water Supply and implementing the Jal Jeevan Mission program in different states. The participant's group involved Executive Engineers, Assistant Engineers, District Coordinators, Consultants, Junior Engineers etc.
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CSE training of trainers
November 02 – 04, 2022
CSE – Urban Water and Waste (UWW) unit organized this training to strengthen the CSE UWW team on core conceptual wastewater management and technology treatment and systems issues. It was aimed to incorporate new and relevant methodologies, exercises and practical sessions in our trainings. Experts from Biome, Saniverse and ACWADAM were invited to provide their valuable inputs to enrich our capacity-building programme.
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WSUDP (Water Sensitive Urban Design &Planning) - Rainwater Harvesting at different scales
November 09 – 12, 2022
CSE – School of Water and Waste (SWW)unit in partnership with NMCG (National Mission for Clean Ganga) organised a 3-day advanced residential training aimed at providing planning and designing tools for implementing RWH (Rainwater Harvesting) at different (individual, neighbourhood and city/zonal) scales and in various land uses. A total of 22 participants attended the training.
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Onsite and Offsite Treatment of Faecal Sludge and Resource Recovery
November 20 – 25, 2022
CSE – Rural Water and Waste programme rolled out a 4-day training programme, a tailor-made program for the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen officials. 32 officials from the state of Haryana, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Jharkhand, Assam, TamilNadu, Bihar and Nagaland attended the training.
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Urban Waterbodies Rejuvenation and Management
November 22 – 25, 2022
CSE – School of Water and Waste (SWW) unit in partnership with NMCG (National Mission for Clean Ganga) organised a 3-day advanced residential training aimed at providing a planning and design framework for the preparation of a water-bodies management plan, with short-, medium- and long-term strategies for catchment area management, protection of the shoreline, designing of lake buffer areas and pollution abatement in waterbodies. A total of 25 participants attended the training.
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Urban Waterbodies Management: Issues, Challenges & Potential of Making Water Sensitive Cities
September 28 – October 14, 2022
CSE – School of Water and Waste (SWW) in collaboration with the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) organised a 2-week training programme aimed to equip trainees with a conceptual and scientific understanding of issues, challenges and potential of urban water bodies management in mainstreaming water sensitive urban design and planning. A total of 135+ participants (Govt. officials) from diverse backgrounds and regions of India participated in this training programme.
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Decentralised Wastewater Treatment and Local Reuse – Issues, Challenges and Potential
November 2 – 16, 2022
CSE – School of Water and Waste (SWW) in collaboration with the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) organised a 2-week training programme aimed to equip trainees with the knowledge about concepts and potential of decentralized wastewater treatment including local reuse of treated wastewater. A total of 110+ participants (Govt. officials) from diverse backgrounds and regions of India participated in this training programme.
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Advanced Residential Training Programme on 'Urban Groundwater Management
January 10 – January 13, 2023
CSE – School of Water and Waste (SWW) in collaboration with the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)is organising a 3-day advanced residential training Programme on Urban Groundwater Management. The training will offer guidance for Planning for Urban Ground Water Management, by explaining and critiquing existing frameworks of Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) and City Water Balance (CWB).
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